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Burdensome vs Unfathomable - What's the difference?

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Burdensome is a related term of unfathomable.


As adjectives the difference between burdensome and unfathomable

is that burdensome is of or like a burden; arduous or demanding while unfathomable is impossible to fathom or understand; incomprehensible.

burdensome

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Of or like a burden; arduous or demanding
  • * 1748 , , Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of morals , London: Oxford University Press (1973 ed.), § 6:
  • . . . reap a pleasure from what, to the generality of mankind, may seem burdensome and laborious.

    Synonyms

    * (of or like a burden) arduous, demanding, exacting, onerous, taxing

    unfathomable

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Impossible to fathom or understand; incomprehensible.
  • The sheer numbers they attacked with were unfathomable .
  • * {{quote-news, year=2013, date=April 9, author=Andrei Lankov, title=Stay Cool. Call North Korea’s Bluff., work=New York Times citation
  • , passage=Suggestions that those leaders are irrational and their decisions unfathomable are remarkably shallow. North Korea is not a theocracy led by zealots who preach the rewards of the afterlife.}}
  • Difficult to penetrate.
  • Antonyms

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